Golf tee



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GOLF TEE Filed March 9, 1951 INVENTOR CharZzsA .Boa (:maan,

ATTOR N EY Patented May 17, 1932 UNITED STATES PAT CHARLES .A. BOATMAN, 0F WATERLOO, IOWA.

GOLF TEE Application filed March 9,

My invention relates to improvements in golf tees, and the object of my improvement is to supply for golf players a tee of inexpensive and convenient construction, for permanent use, and made of a combination of materials so related and assembled as to be light, elastic and buoyant, uninjured by dust or moisture, and properly shaped for use.

Another object of my improvements is to construct the tee as a substantially conic frustum, hollow, and having a relatively thin, elastic shape or core, covered in whole or part either without or Within, or both, by a coating of a light fiuffy, fuzzy, fiocculent or filamentous character quickly permeable by the air, and which therefore offers a greatly enhanced peripheral area to the air when traveling through it, whereby a relatively great frictional resistance to the propulsive force is offered, tending to buoyantly float the tee and quickly drop it at a minimum distance from its original situs or position, so as to be easily seen and retrieved by the player without loss of time in finding it, or loss of the tee.

I have accomplished the above objects by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a central vertical section of my improved golf tee, and Fig. 2 is a top plan thereof, bot-h substantially full size. Fig. 3 is a magnified detail cross-sectional view of a portion of the core of the tee with its filamentous outer coatings.

Tees of solid construction or which are relatively heavy, when struck forcefully, are often driven such a. distance and at such a speed of propulsion that they escape the eyesight and are consequently carried off the links into hiding places and are lost, or at least entail the loss of much time in their retrieval.

Some tees which are made of light materials, but which are bare or non-elastic, are as a consequence respectively driven too far with difiiculty in finding them, or are crumpled or so injured as to be worthless for reuse.

My improved tee is preferably shaped with a hollow basal portion 1 terminating upward- 1931. Serial No. 521,067.

ly in a hollow cylindrical part 2, but may be of any other hollow shape as desired and which is suitable for the purposes above outlined.

The substance or material of this core body should be elastic, and not liable to injury by dust or moisture, and should be as thin as will resist blows of considerable force without rupture or permanent misshaping. The material may thus be of vulcanized rubber or other substance having the above properties, and which will elastically regain its perfect shape instantly after a blow from a club. It thus is fitted best for reuse and longevity.

I affix to any parts or the whole of the outer and inner peripheral surface of the tee a coating or air permeable covering 3. This should be very light and fiocculent, and may be filamentous as shown in Fig. 3, with fibers inset partially into the walls of the tee parts 2 and 1 or both, within or without, or of any fuzzy, fluffy nap of suitable thickness, cemented or 7 otherwise secured thereupon as desired. The peripheral area of the core is thus much enlarge-d as exposed to the surrounding air in flight, as is'obvious, so that the tee sails against the increased air opposition, the air being forcibly driven between the filaments and by friction braking the flight of the tee, causing it to drop near the place where its movement originated. The color of the tee may be such asto be of maximum contrast with the usual soil covering or hazards, and being dropped close to the player, is readily 85 perceived and found. Air forced through the hollow of the tee encounters the inner coating 3 with retarding effect. The filamentous elements 3 need not be perfectly parallel as shown in Fig. 3, for any tangle of a light fuzzy nature will suffice, where multitudinous fibers are each surrounded by air spaces readily permeable by air forced thereinto when the tee is in flight.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A golf tee, consisting of a light body having a peripheral air permeable fiocculent coat.

' 2. A golf tee, consisting of a light body having a substantially frusta]. shape, hollow,

and provided with an air permeable filamentary flocculent coat upon its outerperipheral wall.

3. A golf tee, consisting of a light elastic hollow open end body, and having multitudinous substantially radially projecting filaments on both its inner and outer walls.

4. A golf tee consisting of a hollow open end body having evenly thin elastic walls, with a fiuffy hirsute nap upon the whole or parts through the air.

' 5 A golf tee, consisting ofa hollow open end light elastic body, having a filamentous cover in whole or in part, the filaments whereof are partially embedded in thesubstance of ularly thereto laterally.

6. A golf tee, consisting of a hollowop'en end body of light elastic material, whose lower part is in the shape of a conic frustum and whose upper part continuous therewith is cylindrical and covered by a both outwardly and inwardly projecting filamentary nap as an air-float means.

7. A golf tee, consisting of a substantially frustal hollow thin walled elastic body having a ball-seat at its upper end, and having the body and extend substantially perpendic- I a nap of a hairy consistency, permeable to the air when in flight, to thus oppose frictional resistance to the air.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CHARLES A. BOATMAN.

of its surface to serve as movement re- '7 tarding means when the tee is propelled; 

